With a Cuisinart coffee maker, you won't be stuck to the regular French Roast coffee that you are used to using with your regular percolator. You can have a twelve cup or a one cup coffee pot in this brand as well. If you like to have a cup of coffee every now and then and no one else in the house drinks this coffee, then the one-cup model is the one for you. It takes smaller filters than the larger model but these are only easy to purchase.
If you like specialty coffees, you no longer have to run to Starbucks to get your favorite blend of java. There are recipes that you can use with your Cuisinart so that you can have Irish Coffee, cappuccino, Spice Orange coffee and many more varieties. There is a replaceable carbon filter so that it takes the impurities out of the tap water that you use. There is also a gold tone coffee filter, which means you don't have to buy any more paper filters for your percolator.
With this coffee pot, you can program it to start brewing before you even get out of bed. All you have to do is fill it with the right amount of coffee grinds and water before you go to bed and select the time you want the pot to start brewing you morning java. Then when you get up, the coffee is ready for you. In fact the smell of the coffee brewing could be your alarm clock. You can have as little as one cup of coffee or if you usually have several before you go to work, then you can put in the appropriate amounts. You can also choose the temperature. Some people like to have really hot coffee, while others put an ice cube in it to cool it down. So if you only like a warm cup of cappuccino, you can have this with the Cuisinart.
You can also get a Cuisinart machine that will grind and brew the coffee beans. This machine also features a time to clean light and a self-cleaning feature. The brew pause feature lets you have your cappuccino of cup of French Roast coffee before the full brew is completed. This feature stops the drip when you lift up the pot to pour yourself a cup. To grind the coffee beans, the grinder is built right into the coffee pot. The stainless steel blade will grind the beans perfectly and automatically send them to the filter. If you don't want to grind your own beans, you can use the regular pre-ground coffee.